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Jun 13
Two peacefool boys stole items from a shop.
Lets see in the thread that Islam allows this or no.🧵
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Jun 13
SITREP : 2130

Despite being in one of the largest Army "Environment" in Country, if not the largest; Where "Inspiration" was never absent, if you step out of house, there came 2 "Inspirations" for many a many; and changed lives of some of us.

1st. FAUJI (DD TV Serial)
(2)No Phones.
No Cable TV.
Only Radio.
Only DD.
Newspaper and Intercom (Useless, because there was only 1 other Classmate which had one in that "General Area" and Girls you don't talk to)

So very limited "stories" handed over down from word-of-mouth from generations to gen
(3) A new lad would come, whose father would be in some regiment and then he would regale you with Stories of that Regiment, Pre-Assembly, Recess and Pre-Boarding School Bus.

There were no COMMANDO Stories. Some of us would discuss, from Newspaper and Magazines.
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Jun 13
Family immigration detention has defenders.

They argue it reduces flight risk, keeps families together, and provides shelter while cases are processed.

But here's the problem:

Even if you accept every one of those claimed benefits, pediatricians, child psychiatrists, and child-development experts still conclude prolonged detention is not justified.

Why?

Because the evidence of harm is overwhelming.

Depression.
Anxiety.
PTSD.
Developmental regression.
Sleep disorders.
Toxic stress that can alter brain development and increase long-term health risks.

And the longer detention lasts, the worse those harms become.

Meanwhile, the strongest government arguments don't hold up particularly well:

• Community-based programs achieve high court appearance rates without detention.
• Deterrence has little evidence behind it.
• Claims that detention protects children's welfare are contradicted by health data from detention facilities themselves.

The debate isn't really whether detention has benefits.

It's whether those benefits justify months or years of documented harm to children.

The overwhelming expert consensus is that they do not.

Children should not pay the price for an immigration system's administrative convenience.Image
📌 RECEIPTS

[1] American Academy of Pediatrics
Commentary From the Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/res…

[2] American Academy of Pediatrics
AAP, Leading Health Groups Call for End of Family Detention
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/3…

[3] Harvard Global Health Institute
New Report Finds Immigration Detention Harms Children's Mental and Physical Health
globalhealth.harvard.edu/press-release-…

[4] The British Journal of Psychiatry
The Impact of Immigration Detention on Children's Mental Health: Systematic Review
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

[5] Yale Law Journal
Detention and Deterrence: Insights from the Early Years of Immigration Detention Reform
yalelawjournal.org/forum/detentio…
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Jun 13
Iran’s DepChairman of the Parliament’s National Security Commission, Nabavian, in an interview with SNN:

The texts released about the MoU in the media are not complete, and are just excerpts.
Nabavian: I’ve seen most of the original agreement texts, and clause 1 in this new version is better than earlier versions [in Iran’s favour].

Earlier versions said “end of war,” which could leave room for the US to claim the war ended while still carrying out “defensive” military operations. This version says “immediate and permanent end of military operations” on all fronts, including Lebanon, which is much stronger.

It also commits both sides not to start a war or threaten/use force against each other.
Nabavian: Clause 2 says Iran and the US must respect each other’s sovereignty and avoid interfering in each other’s internal affairs.

But I object to the wording because it puts Iran & America on equal levels, as if both have been aggressors. In reality, America has been interfering in Iran’s affairs for 47 years, insulting Iranians, and even symbolically threatening Iran while this document is being exchanged.
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Jun 13
Token costs are the number one complaint in AI coding right now. Most of the damage comes from a few default habits that are easy to fix.

I tested every optimization I could find this month. These 7 made the biggest difference in Claude Code:

1. Clear context between tasks. Type /clear when you switch tasks. Every new message re-sends your full conversation history as input tokens. That debugging session from an hour ago is still inflating every prompt you send. A fresh start costs nothing. Carrying stale context costs you on every turn.

2. Compact at 60%, not 95%. Claude auto-compacts near 95% context capacity. By then, output quality has already degraded. Run /compact focus on [current task] at 60% yourself. You get a cleaner summary and stay in the range where the model still performs well.

3. Match the model to the task. Opus for complex reasoning. Sonnet for routine code. Haiku for simple lookups and formatting. Most tasks don't need the most expensive model. One team documented a 72% cost reduction just from model switching and prompt caching over three months.

4. Offload heavy reads to subagents. A 10,000-line log file that Claude reads early in a session stays in context for every message after it. Instead of reading it in your main session, spin up a subagent. It reads in isolated context and returns only the findings. Your main window stays clean.

5. Build deterministic tools that cost zero tokens to run. Not everything needs an LLM call. Data formatting, file moves, test runners, API calls with known inputs. Write these as regular scripts. The LLM orchestrates. Deterministic code executes. The scripts run for free, every time, with predictable output.

6. Keep CLAUDE. md lean. It loads into every session before anything else. A 5,000-token CLAUDE. md costs 5,000 tokens before you've typed a word. Every turn. Every session. Keep it under 200 lines. Move project-specific context into scoped markdown files that only load when relevant.

7. Run /usage before starting a new task. Don't wait until you notice the model making mistakes it wouldn't have made 20 minutes ago. Check /usage, see where you stand, and decide whether to /compact or /clear before committing to the next chunk of work.Image
Most of these take less than a minute to build into your workflow.

The compounding effect is what matters. Each one shaves a layer. Run all 7 together and the same session that used to drain your budget in an hour lasts the full workday.
The model isn't getting cheaper.

Your habits around it are what move the bill.
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Jun 13
Snyder: The U.S. is not just unreliable, it is behaving strangely.

Allies like Romania, Poland, Taiwan and South Korea expect America to save resources for serious moments, not waste munitions, reputation and focus on wars it cannot explain. 1/
Snyder: Trump wants to be Putin but cannot. He wants Putin’s money, Putin’s ability to fight wars, Putin’s power.

But he lacks the patience, attention span and competence and he is afraid of American public opinion. 2/
Snyder: Putin does have a vision for Russia. It is terrible, totalitarian and built on a false past where Russia and Ukraine were supposedly one.

He wants to be remembered as a ruler who brought more territory into Russia. 3/
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Jun 13
@idontexistTore #JasonFunes
"ToreSays Seems this Jason Funes person had video with “new” angles that he sat on?" H/T: Epiphany Gal
Article:
nationalfile.com/democrat-arres…
YouTube Channel:
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@idontexistTore #JasonFunes
"He forgets we did stereos and shows where I told him off for federiques baby momma and Jason funes . I asked him how all that shit went down- you heard it from him…. But now somehow I was in the middle?" @idontexistTore
ToreSays💅🏻Telegram
t.me/toresaysPlus/1…Image
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@idontexistTore "WHERE DID OHIO INTEL TIPS ON TWITTER GO? 👀."
t.me/toresaysPlus/1…
"Oh... That's ok we can always subpoena Twitter for all their records.
#FedCrewExpose with a dash of Lincoln Project and some Akbar or #Funes ?
💅💅Run losers run."
@idontexistTore 💅🏻
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Jun 13
After 3 years of using Claude, I can confidently say it’s the technology that has transformed my life the most — alongside the Internet.

Here are 10 prompts that completely changed my daily workflow (and can do the same for you): 👇

Save this — you’ll need it later. 🔖 Image
1. Research

Mega prompt:

You are an expert research analyst. I need comprehensive research on [TOPIC].

Please provide:
1. Key findings from the last 12 months
2. Data and statistics with sources
3. Expert opinions and quotes
4. Emerging trends and predictions
5. Controversial viewpoints or debates
6. Practical implications for [INDUSTRY/AUDIENCE]

Format as an executive brief with clear sections. Include source links for all claims.

Additional context: [YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS]
2. Writing white papers

Mega prompt:

You are a technical writer specializing in authoritative white papers.

Write a white paper on [TOuPIC] for [TARGET AUDIENCE].

Structure:
- Executive Summary (150 words)
- Problem Statement with market data
- Current Solutions and their limitations
- Our Approach/Solution with technical details
- Case Studies or proof points
- Implementation framework
- ROI Analysis
- Conclusion and Call to Action

Tone: [Authoritative/Conversational/Technical]
Length: [2000-5000 words]

Include:
- Relevant statistics and citations
- Visual placeholders for charts/diagrams
- Quotes from industry experts (mark as [NEEDS VERIFICATION])

Background context: [YOUR COMPANY/PRODUCT INFO]
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Jun 13
Very well written, please read. This is another aspect of the intersection between increasing complexity & decreasing competence. Reusable rocket science, how semiconductors work, the probabilistic inference underlying AI, how your fingers or voice control your phone,
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how GPS works, international economics, they've all reached the point where even a white or asian person of average intelligence can not longer understand. It takes someone 1+ SD above average, and many years of specialized study to understand what is happening in one field.
2/
We also have a growing flood of non-whites with IQs well below average for who these things are all magic - they have zero idea how work, but also increasingly have zero respect for the magicians.

AI is in the process of much things much worse as it literally makes the average
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Jun 13
1/ 100 million cells in a single-cell study sounds massive.
But do you know how many cells are in one human body?
Try 30 trillion. Image
2/
That’s 30,000,000,000,000.
Most are red blood cells—over 80% of the total.
Still, the diversity is staggering.
3/
In one adult human:
T cells: 500 billion
B cells: 300 billion
Neutrophils: 700 billion
That’s one person. One snapshot.

read here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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Jun 13
Dave's Car ID Service is keeping it clean today with a look back at a neglected topic in automotive history: the car wash. So sit back, put it in neutral, release your parking brake. And don't forget to roll up your windows!

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Of course people have been washing, or ordering their chauffeurs to wash, their cars as long as there have been cars. I'm specifically talking about a commercial enterprise devoted to car washing. The first would be the 'Automobile Laundry,' founded, appropriately, in Detroit Michigan 1914.

Like the automobile business, owners Frank McCormick and J.W. Hinkle designed it on the assembly line principle: drive your car in while workers would wet, soap, rinse, and dry in successive task stations.

The cost? A princely sum of $1.50, about $50 today.Image
$1.50 for a CAR WASH?? What do I look like, Rockefeller? In 1921 A fella named Carl Bohland patented a low labor cost semi-automatic car washing system called the Auto Wash Bowl. About 80 feet across, the bowl featured a radially ribbed concrete surface underneath. You'd drive in, take a few laps around, and the bouncing would shake the worst mud and salt and grime off your wheels and undercarriage.

Not a spit shine, but hey only a $0.25! For most average Shmoes that was clean enough. The first one opened in Saint Paul MN in 1921, but expanded to two location in Chicago. First picture shows a Chicago Auto Wash Bowl in 1924, with a Ford Model T coupe and Buick touring car.Image
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Jun 13
You step into a room you know is 68 degrees and your skin reads 85.

That is autonomic thermoregulation misfiring, not you being dramatic about temperature.
2/7 Your body runs temperature through one thermostat and two response systems.

The thermostat is the hypothalamus, reading core temperature and signaling the body to heat or cool.
3/7 When it works, the signal arrives on time. Vessels open to release heat or clamp to hold it. Sweat glands switch on when needed.

In Long COVID dysautonomia, that chain breaks down.
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